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Customers of major software vendors take comfort whenever a vendor issues a security fix for a critical software vulnerability. The clients expect that software update to keep attackers from stealing sensitive information. But new data from Google’s elite hacking team, Project Zero, suggests that assumption is misplaced. One in four “zero-day,” or previously unknown, software exploits that the Google team tracked in 2020 might have been avoided “if a more thorough investigation and patching effort were explored,” Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone said Wednesday. In some cases, the attackers only changed a line or two of code to turn their old exploit into a new one. Many of the zero-day exploits were for popular internet browsers like Chrome, Firefox or Safari, exposing an array of users around the world. Project Zero’s sample size is modest, covering just 24 exploits in all. But the data points to a need for greater […]

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